Tobias Menzies Quotes

When I look around at Broadway and the West End, theatre is becoming an exclusive club.

You can be mediocre, the way most actors are, and you can still be a top movie star, even if your movies are boring and predictable. All you have to do is know how to sell yourself, let yourself be manufactured.

Films are now made by accountants. They pick a pretty young female or male face out of the air and give them a part - not because they think that person is right for it or is ready for it, but because they think that person will make them money.

We have filmmakers who make films with some kind of responsibility and take cinema seriously like Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Prakash Jha. But now these people also take stars... Without stars they cannot work.

I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.

Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.

Today, most big stars want scripts to be written in a particular way, show them in a certain light. They want people to like them for various reasons. It's all about how much people will like me in this film than about whether it's a good film or not.

People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want.

If anyone thinks my show was 'pretty good,' then I've completely failed.

When you look at what we spend on entertainment, whether it's on CDs, music, DVDs, there is so much money invested in that, people want to know a little more about the stars they're paying to see or hear.

In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.

Look, I'm not a blockbuster star.

Being a celebrity can be very intoxicating and very addicting. And I've always been afraid of that, because I've grown up post-almost every child star out there who has gone wayward.

I grew up in the West End, so my whole background was living among theatres and musicals and the West End's coffee bars and clubs. It's kind of obvious that one day I should do something like that.

I'm not a media personality, I'm an actress. I want to protect that thing: the suspension of disbelief. The rest of it is just distraction.

Broadway has a lot more razzle-dazzle than the West End. In terms of the everyday work routine, it's not different, but there's a cachet about Broadway that lends itself to more anticipation among audiences.

I went to an ordinary primary school, and then I started performing in a show called 'Billy Elliot' on the West End, and that was sort of my drama school.

Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.

Evvverrrrybody wants to know what it's like working with Jennifer Lopez.

I don't think there has been a huge shift. Most of the films still focus on Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Akshay Kumar, etc. The percentage of films that have someone like a Kangana Ranaut shining in it is really low.

Star power opened 'Mission Mangal.'

Nobody can link the success of a movie with a particular artiste.

I do believe that there are some films that cannot be made without stars.

My oomph factor helped me enter B-town. I have a naturally gifted body.

The entertainment industry is so vast; that's why I got into it the first place.